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and published by

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). released for

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in Japan in 2006, and for

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Dynasty Warriors is a series of Japanese hack and slash action video games created by Omega Force and Koei (now Koei Tecmo). The series is a spin-off of Koei's turn-based strategy '' Romance of the Three Kingdoms'' series, based upon the Chinese novel of ...

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series, as well as the larger

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meta series, which is based on the Great Classical Novel of the same name.

Gameplay

''Dynasty Warriors Online'' allows players to create their own character and choose a weapon from existing playable characters. Once a character is created, the player enters the world of ''Dynasty Warriors'', defeating opposing armies for experience points. Players can also see other players that they can battle. It also poses the introduction of free roam, of which a player can move around their factions city talking to various non-player characters. The gameplay of Dynasty Warriors Online is similar to its console counterparts. It composes of two main parts, campaign battles and melee battles. Campaign battles occurs weekly, where the 3 Kingdoms (Wu, Wei, and Shu) and other possible factions (Such as Dong Zhuo or Yuan Shao) fight for cities and territory. If there's no campaign scheduled, then a large 24 player Showdown battle will be held. The goal of the game is to complete the objective specified for the type of battle. In melee, there are five modes: * Capture – Capture all the enemy bases, or all the bases on the battlefield * Defeat – Defeat the certain number of troops in the time limit * Confront – Defeat 10 enemy players * Search – Bring 10 pieces of treasure back to one of your bases or supply base. * Destroy – Reduce the enemies force through various means.

Development

The game was originally announced for

in 2004 as ''Shin Sangoku Musou BB'' (''Dynasty Warriors Broadband''), with a release in Japan in early 2006. In late 2009 a PS3 port was teased through a small

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site. The PS3 version was later confirmed, with a worldwide release date of ., but was instead brought exclusive only to Japan. In August 2010 it was announced that

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would be publishing this game for the North America and Europe regions. The game was available as a free download, as is most of Aeria Games' content. The company supported the game via

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s. The game's name changed from ''Dynasty Warriors BB'' to ''Dynasty Warriors Online'' on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. On July 18, 2013, a massive update was released in the Japanese version of Dynasty Warriors Online, changing the name of Shin Sangoku Musou Online to Shin Sangoku Musou Online Z. This update adds the new feature of "Weapon Swapping" similar to Dynasty Warriors 7. Characters and soldiers have been remodeled with their Dynasty Warriors 7 appearances (Except for some characters like Zuo Ci who have their Dynasty Warriors 8 appearance). The intro of the game has been changed, featuring the same three characters from the first in a revised state. As of 1 January 2014 @ 5:00 PM PST the English version hosted by Aeria Games has shut down. The Japanese version has shut down as of 24 February 2022.

References

External links

* * {{Musou series 2006 video games Dynasty Warriors PlayStation 3 games PlayStation 4 games PlayStation Vita games Windows games Koei games Massively multiplayer online role-playing games Inactive massively multiplayer online games Video games developed in Japan Video games set in China Aeria Games games